Chief Digital Officer - BFS

Chief Digital Officer - Experience in Developing Mobile application is Mandatory

Product development & market intelligence

- Lead the planning, design and development of product strategy for the company

- Initiate new product development and implementation

- Contribute to concepts related to product implementation including involvement in communication strategy and revised sales plans

- Plan for potential new products on a cost-benefit basis to allow the management to prioritize and decide on new products

- Prepare business plans for the introduction of new products including monitoring and controlling of costs thereafter

- Estimate the designed product's market demand

- Prepare monthly internal monthly product performance and present results to product team.

- Track product performance

- Obtain commitments on sales targets on various products and assess its implications and consequences for a potential product launch

- Monitor and control the product strategy and - in case of deviation- initiate appropriate counter measures

- Evangelizing key product capabilities to differentiate in the fast-moving ecommerce space, specifically around the area of mobile

- Delivering business and product documentation, feature prioritization and business justification for all projects delivered for the organization

- Understand competitor's products, services& strategies

- Maintain a database of competitor products and analyse the same.

- Prepare monthly competitive reviews and market intelligence reports.

- Understanding and synthesize customer needs from market research, customer visits, analytics, competitive insights and partner/sales conversations

- Track products and services of both local and international markets

- Prepare documentation/communication as per requirements

- Management Information System

Digital Strategy & Operations

- Oversee all digital related aspects of the company including the web front end, the omni-channel platform, the marketing stack, the backend systems, the analytics ecosystem and the IT infrastructure.

- Roll out new technology driven products quickly and often. This includes setting up agile development capabilities and the creation of scrum master roles both internally and with outsourcing entities.

- Liase with marketing, IT, and operations on different projects and product launches

- Identify, mitigate and escalate risks as well as working collaboratively with technology leaders from the management teams to anticipate and forecast risks in the short, medium and long term.

Digital Leadership

- Create a culture of innovation among the product team

- Manage conflicting priorities basis organizational priorities and ROI

- Strongly engage with key business stakeholders for inputs into the product strategy so as to ensure its alignment with the overall organizational priorities

- Lead a team of talented product managers and designers to execute on that vision laid out

- Closely partner with the IT team for joint execution of the product and technology vision for the company